How long can a fortune be? Bill's response is fortune-worthy in its entirety!
I would intensify his advice to "NOT to use Microsoft Word." Note the Full Stop. I will spare people the full catalogue of misfortunes I have observed, but feel inclined to cite the case of someone to whom I once sent a PostScript file, who, naively, opened it in Word which, helpfully (as Bill emphasises), was in "Autosave" mode. Within a few seconds the file was scrambled beyond recovery. Best wishes to all, Ted. On 20-Jun-11 22:47:49, bill.venab...@csiro.au wrote: > The advice is always NOT to use Microsoft Word to edit an R file. > That stuff is poisonous. Microsoft word, typical of all Microsoft > software, does not do what you tell it to do but helpfully does > what it thinks you meant to ask it to do but were too dumb to do so. > > Even notepad, gawdelpus, would be better. > > When I look at your script the first sign of trouble I see is: > > Error: unexpected input in: > " s[1,3,k]<- (0.1) * runif(1)+ 0.1; > s[1,1,k]<- (0.02) * runif(1)+ 0.98 ยจ" > > which is the spurious character Microsoft word has helpfully inserted > to make it all look nice. It's downhill all the way from there. > > (R does not expect Microsoft Word, just as "nobody expects the Spanish > Inquisition". See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY). > > Bill Venables. > > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of james198877 > Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2011 7:13 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Unreasonable syntax error > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3612530/PSC.r PSC.r > > Hi all, > > I just wrote a program in R by editing it in Microsoft Word and then > pasting > into the text editor of R. The above is the file. > > And below is what the console complains.... Why doesn't it recognise > 'r'?? > > I have to mention that at least when I typed this first several lines > into > the console, the first error didn't appear. I don't try the next errors > as > there would be too many lines to type...I'm not sure if this is > something > about Word > > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3612530/lastsave.txt lastsave.txt > > Thanks a lot for your help!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-Jun-11 Time: 08:25:11 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
